Nelson
TownTown in Pendle, North West.
Nelson is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Nelson add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 26% of people in Nelson live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Nelson compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Nelson safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Nelson at a rate of 107.5 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 92.4 per 1,000 people across North West.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 318 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Nelson.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,572), anti-social behaviour (790) and other crime (617).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Nelson was 116.8 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Deprivation in Nelson, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Nelson has no single figure. Of its 17 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 12 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Nelson
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pendle 009A | 1,804 | 126.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Pendle 009B | 1,892 | 210.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 94.7% |
| Pendle 009C | 1,955 | 86.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.5% |
| Pendle 009D | 2,056 | 87.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.6% |
| Pendle 010A | 2,302 | 80.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.7% |
| Pendle 010B | 1,780 | 138.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.4% |
| Pendle 010C | 1,970 | 98.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.1% |
| Pendle 010D | 1,646 | 129.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Pendle 010E | 1,368 | 89.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 94.5% |
| Pendle 010F | 1,400 | 100.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.9% |
| Pendle 011A | 2,535 | 125.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.4% |
| Pendle 011B | 1,825 | 61.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.0% |
| Pendle 011C | 2,903 | 86.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.2% |
| Pendle 011D | 2,255 | 166.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.7% |
| Pendle 012B | 1,722 | 71.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% |
| Pendle 012C | 1,708 | 120.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.2% |
| Pendle 012D | 2,365 | 70.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.1% |
Your MP
- Jonathan HinderLabourMP for Pendle and Clitheroe
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Nelson1
Middle areas in Nelson4
Towns near Nelson6
Nelson in brief
Nelson is a town in Pendle, North West.
About 36,305 people lived in Nelson in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £95,000 in 2025 across 365 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 107.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Nelson was £95,000 in 2025.
Nelson had 33,808 usual residents at the census.
About 26% of people in Nelson live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Nelson, 98.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.